Two problems: 'Dark money' and fast-rising campaign spending.

3:30 PM,
May 1, 2014

Campaign-finance reform involves 'dark money' and the fast-rising injection of cash into politics.

Written by

Arizona Republic Editorial Board

A U.S. Senate committee is taking on a near-impossible task: dealing with the knotty issues of campaign-finance reform.

Not that any real resolutions will be forthcoming from the hearings of the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration, but it may help if the committee could at least frame campaign-finance reform proposals more coherently. At a minimum, that would require examining the issue not as one problem to consider, but two.